Just For Fun Center & Kids Corner

Gallery Games & Artmaking

Explore the Fun Things for Families to do brochure (PDF) in English or Spanish to find activities on every floor.

Weekends

Backpacks & Art Tubes

Tromp through the galleries with a Family Backpack full with artmaking, games, and puzzles. Short on time? Grab an art tube instead. Available on weekends and every day during school breaks. Check out the digital signage on site to find the Family Activity Cart.

Create-n-Takes

Create-n-Takes are facilitated in-gallery activities that inspire visitors to discuss, roll up their sleeves, and get creative. Open on weekends and over school breaks during the school year and on weekdays during summer. Look for the Create-n-Take sign or ask for locations at the welcome center. Discover new Create-n-Takes every season.

Monthly Programs

CelebrARTE on Free First Saturday

Celebrate your creativity and cultura every first Saturday of the month with bilingual activities for toda la familia. General admission is free.

¡Nuevo! Drop in and listen to the stories behind the objects with master cuentistas during Cuentos del Arte. Listen to cuentistas tell the tales of artworks through music, movement and art during our new storytelling program. Stories para todos—for everyone—happen at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm.

Summer Classes

Get Your Hands on the DAM’s First-Ever Kids Project Book!

Art projects for you and your kids are everywhere in the museum—in the galleries, in backpacks, at programs like Create Playdate, and at our kids summer classes. Now you can engage in some of that creativity at home. We’ve put 15 original projects designed by DAM educators into a book with step-by-step instructions, plus photos of the completed projects and the artworks that inspired them. Make a drum, a mini chandelier, a magnetic horse, or a finger puppet while gaining insight into the artist’s process.

Family FAQs

Visit the FAQ page to learn answers to common questions that families have about how to make the most fun out of a visit. Call 720-913-0130 with questions.

Family and kids programs are supported by the William Randolph Hearst Endowment for Education Programs, Nancy Benson Education Endowment Fund, CenturyLink Endowment, and Jim Kelley and Amie Knox Education Endowment Fund. Funding is also provided by TeleTech, Connie Burwell White & William W. White Foundation, Harry L. Willett Foundation, Lorraine and Harley Higbie, The Eugene C. Armstrong Family Foundation, and the citizens who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).